Chapter 131: The Poison Country
Body poison (country name) is Tianzhu also. In the Book of Mountains and Seas, it is said: "In the country of poison, the Xuanyuan clan lives in it."
Guo Note, Tianzhu Guoye. (The false note of the Buddhists, in order to improve the status of India, belittles China as all sides, and cares about devouring Confucianism and devouring the Tao.) But the effect is obvious, in the eyes of the ancient Han people, Tianzhu seems to be the seat of the Buddha country, the western heaven bliss. It also made the Han people respect India, so much so that the ultra-weak India has not been conquered by the Central Plains Dynasty, except for Mongolia and Wang Xuance, who are not interested in Buddhism. )
Tianzhu is an ancient name in India, and most of the Chinese people learned about this title from Xuanzang in Journey to the West.
The body poison was only known in China during the Western Han Dynasty, but most of the territory of the body poison at that time was occupied by the Yueshi people, Zhang Qian learned that the southwest of Shu Road could lead to the body poison country, so Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to join forces with the body poison country to attack the Xiongnu, but unfortunately the resistance was too great, and the secret messengers sent were blocked by the southwest barbarians along the way.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and directly sent a large army to attack Yelang, Dian and Southwest Yi, but he was stubbornly resisted and gave up, and never crossed the Dali and Baoshan generations.
On the way to trade with the Great Xia Kingdom (Kushan Empire) in the West, the Poison Kingdom acted as an intermediary.
Since then, the Central Plains Dynasty has not interrupted its exchanges with the poisonous country, and merchants from the mainland have gone to Burma and even Southeast Asia.
During the Tang Dynasty, there were more merchants who passed through the Dehong Ancient Road to conduct commercial transactions between Burma and India and the mainland. The river is looking for those who have not returned, and they say that they want to return in winter, and the snow in Gaoligong Mountain wants to return in autumn and summer, and there is no heat in the firmament; If you want to return in the spring, you will be bribed in your hands."
Among them, the Hejia people refer to the merchants in the area of the Xi'er River in Dali today; The Xun descendants (now the ancestors of the Achang and Jingpo people) lived in the area of present-day Kachin State in northern Myanmar; Bend is the language of the Bai nationality, referring to the area of present-day Dehong; Luo bribe is also a Bai language, which refers to property. This historical material shows that during the Tang Dynasty, not only Han merchants went to Myanmar and India to do business, but also Bai merchants went to Myanmar to do business through the Dehong Ancient Road.
At that time, the goods imported into China from Burma and India, the "Book of Barbarians" recorded "Mule Country...... There were messengers who moved to the barbarian rivers to trade in river pigs, white felt, and glazed poppies", in addition to amber, sea shells, light beads, etc., and China mainly exported silk and porcelain and other Central Plains specialties.
Therefore, since ancient times, trade routes with the outside world have not only been limited to the Silk Road.
It's just that with the alternation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the southern court was weak, and there had always been rebellions in most areas of Annam Province.
And because the Silk Road and the Western Regions are more convenient, the existence of the poison country as an intermediary is getting weaker and weaker, and the Central Plains Dynasty only knows that there is such a body poison country recorded in the annals, but it does not know what the body poison country is.
The current King Luo Bin also wants to learn from Zhang Qian, as a secret room and unite with the poison country to jointly destroy the two countries of Linyi and Zhenla that are blocking here.
The Chinese people in the Han and Tang dynasties were very pioneering.
Especially the current literati, advocating the spirit of chivalry, for example, King Luo Bin once said: Don't Yan Dan here, and the strong man will rush to the crown. In the past, there were no people, and today the water is still cold.
Looking for the great poets of the Tang Dynasty, it is basically rare to see a sentence or two of heroic side poems.
"Even if the bones are fragrant, I am not ashamed of the world. The teacher used to do this chivalrous line in Sufu, King Bin has been familiar with the heart, the far-reaching achievements of the Marquis of Boling, no one is not envious, King Bin voluntarily invited, willing to leave a name in the book of Dan, after thousands of years, naturally some people praised the feat of the students "Luo Bin Wang was in high spirits, and talked eloquently.
The boy should move forward bravely.
It's not that he doesn't know the severity, but he knows the ups and downs ahead, so that he can achieve fame.
Emperor Taishang asked him to supervise the construction of the Fu boat, naturally in order to sharpen him and give him a credit, but he was not at ease with such a low-hanging fame.
People are ambitious!
Li Yuan couldn't help but laugh when he looked at King Luo Bin, although King Luo Bin was already very mature, he was still very similar to the second middle school boy, if the courtiers in the court proposed to secretly poison the country, they would inevitably put forward a large part of the reasons and information and so on.
This kid is almost open-mouthed, and he doesn't even know the current situation of the poisonous country.
Li Yuan remembered that in more than ten years, when Zhenguan was seventeen years, Zhongtianzhu would send envoys to Chang'an, and then Li Shimin sent Li Yibiao as the chief envoy, and Wang Xuance as the deputy envoy to escort them back to Tianzhu, and then Zhenguan twenty-one years, when Wang Xuance was sent again as a regular envoy, he didn't expect a domestic rebellion in Tianzhu on the way, and finally
I don't know whether I am alive or dead and robbed Wang Xuance's mission.
Then the next story is very familiar, Wang Xuance, a Wenchen, was angry, and directly borrowed troops from the countries of Tubo and the Western Regions, and directly destroyed Zhongtianzhu.
Of course, Zhongtianzhu is not as big as India in later generations, but it is not small.
But this matter was just a very common thing in the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Xuance did not receive much attention after returning to China, after all, Li Shimin destroyed too many small countries
In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent Wang Xuance as the main envoy and Jiang Shiren as the deputy envoy and a group of 30 people to Tianzhu, and the king of Tianzhu sent many envoys with property to prepare to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty with Wang Xuance. It coincided with the death of the corpse of the king of Zhongtianzhu, Luo Yiduo, and the chaos in the country, and his minister Nafu Emperor Alona Shun usurped the throne, so he mobilized all the troops to reject Wang Xuance. The 30 cavalry that followed Wang Xuance engaged the enemy and was defeated and captured, and the enemy took the opportunity to plunder the goods contributed by the countries.
Wang Xuance fled and arrived in Tibet. Wang Xuance sent a letter to recruit troops, and obtained 1,200 Tibetan soldiers and 7,000 Nibora (present-day Nepal) cavalry. Wang Xuance and his deputy envoy Jiang Shiren led the armies of Tubo and Nibora to attack Cha Gong and Luo Cheng in Zhongtianzhu, fought for three days, broke through Cha Gong and Luo Cheng, beheaded more than 3,000 people, and the enemy was drowned about 10,000 people. Alona Shun fled, gathered the stragglers and fought again, and Jiang Shiren captured Alona Shun and captured thousands of enemies.
The remnants followed the king's wife to resist at the Qiantuo Weijiang River, and Chiang Shiren defeated them, captured his concubines and princes, and captured 12,000 men and women, 30,000 cattle of various kinds, and 580 cities surrendered. The corpse of the king of Dongtianzhu sent 30,000 cattle and horses to feed the army, and also sent bows, knives, and treasures. The country of Gabulu offered foreign objects and sent a map, asking for a statue of Lao Tzu.
The four Tianzhu kingdoms were shocked and frightened.
The combat effectiveness is exceeded.
In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, in May, Wang Xuance sent the captured Alona Shun, the princess, the son, etc., the captured men and women, and more than 20,000 cattle and horses to Chang'an to offer prisoners. Li Shimin named Wang Xuance as the doctor of Chaosan.
But
I don't know if Wang Xuance did it on purpose or because Li Shimin didn't want to give him a big title, so he brought back Tianzhu Fangtu, this monk claimed to have a lifespan of two hundred years and had the art of immortality.
After a few months, the woman had created a medicine that prolonged her life. At that time, Li Shimin was seriously ill and took other medicines to no avail, so he took the medicine that he had made up and died
Yes, that's right, Li Shimin was the pill refined by the Fang Shi brought back by Wang Xuance, and he was eaten to death.